Tag: medieval

Carpe Noctem Font

Carpe Noctem (Latin for ‘Seize The Night’), was a bit of a surprise. Someone asked me if I could create a lower case for my Closet Skeleton font. I began working on it and lo and behold, a beautiful font

Shadowfield Font

Shadowfield is a fantasy font which was inspired by the hand lettering on the Spiderwick movie posters (which itself was apparently based on Hand Skript One). Every glyph was drawn by hand, using a gel pen on 160 grams paper.

Carta Magna Font

Carta Magna is a blackletter font design published by deFharo Published by deFharoDownload Carta Magna

Bronwen Font

In Welsh mythology, Bronwen was the daughter of Llyr, the god of the sea. It is a popular girls name in Wales and it apparently means ‘white breast’ or ‘pure heart’. I really like this name and I think it

Gryffith CF Font

Gryffith is a display typeface blending a wide range of influences from medieval calligraphy to art deco lettering to high technology. Strange, captivating, and elegant, Gryffith is especially useful for logos, headlines, posters, and artwork. The typeface is based on

Cherubina Font

Cherubina means ‘Blessed’. It is a name derived from the Akkadian “karabu / kuribu”, meaning “blessing, blessed”. A cherub is a type of spiritual being mentioned in the Hebrew Bible, often depicted as a baby with wings. This font was

Flipflop Font

This font makes the impression to be a blackletter font (Fraktur) but it really only is little squares and triangles stuck together in a flip or flop way to form the glyphs. Only a few times did I have to

Chalice Font

Chalice is a new original Canada Type family inspired by two different engraving eras and locations: Medieval England and 19th century Russia. Chalice’s construct is geometric at heart, though the wedge serifs and their contribution to the overall idiosyncrasies of

Cruller Font

Cruller is a display typeface that is based on a rare bit of lettering from a 1910 German lettering book. What was the inspiration for designing the font? I found the base lettering years ago in a specimen and scanned

Heraldry Font

Heraldry is a dingbat font that pays hommage to the coats of arms worn by families throughout Europe. Thanks to this font, you will be able to rapidly compose your own coat of arms by choosing your symbols, your shield

Mr Darcy Font

The elegant and very graceful Mr. Darcy is sufficiently compete with its additional characters–to be stated more precisely, over 136 defining alternates. These optional features are carefully displayed within the supplied brochure. The employ of the Mr. Darcy family moreover

Blackmoor Font

Based on an old English letter style, Blackmoor richly evokes all the character of medieval times. It’s rough, distressed features make it an excellent choice for a variety of applications from serious historical publications to horror movies and comics. Designed

Taurunum Font

Taurunum is made with intention to be used for display design (logos, posters, etc.), and combining the weights should give best results. Published by Kostic Type FoundryDownload Taurunum

Sepian Font

Sepian is an original hand lettered font based primarily on Textualis, or Textura in the Blackletter family – the style most commonly associated with Gothic scripts. The addition of barbs to the terminals add to its modern and sharp look